goooooooooooo Bob!!!!
---------- Original Message ----------- From: Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:20:05 -0600 Subject: [AMRadio] Ham Embarrasment > I get mail from Keith LaMonica, because I'm interested in the remote > HF radio operation. He's got a mailing list, dedicated to just that. > This was in that list. > > 73 = Best Regards, > -Geoff/W5OMR > > ------------------------------- > > To TIME recipients: > > An article in your TIME magazine by Lev > Grossman has been forwarded to my office. > > http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1009913,00.html > > > > I do believe that Mr. Grossman has > grossly been mis- informed and for such a prestigious magazine such > as yours, one would think this type of gross error would have been > avoided. > > > > Amateur Radio has been a magnificent > hobby since the early 1920's for electronic experimenters that work > tirelessly in their home labs and stations to break barriers and > bring new technologies to the consumer world, not to mention the > many uses the amateur radio operator achieved from these advances. > > > > If Mr. Grossman would do his homework, > he would have discovered that what he refers to the 'embarassing' hobby > was the platform for many of the devices he relies upon today. > Amateur radio was many of the early engineers college education. > Amateur radio operators, turned professional electronic engineers > brought the world, most of the early technologies that brought us the > radio receiver, the technology of television, the VCR - audio and > video, high powered transmitters for AM, FM radio and TV stations, the > complicated antenna systems used to transmit those signals, high > powered audio amplifiers used in high fidelity and live concert > stages and the list goes on. > > > > It was Art Collins W0CXX that brought > Single Sideband technology to radio communications that carry vital > communications world wide - from Air Force One, to virtually every > transmission made by our government embassies around the world and > every major commercial airliner in the sky. The late Arthur Godfrey, > General Curtis Lemay, NBC space correspondent Roy Neal, Walter > Kronkite, several of our US senators, many entertainers such as Joe > Walsh of the Eagles, Patti Lovelace, Dave Bell, Hollywood movie > Producer, Ronnie Milsap, baseball great Joe Rudi all the way to the > late King Hussein, JY1 are just a 'few' of the many amateur > operators that lives have been enriched AND, have enriched each and > every person on the globe, including Mr. Grossman by Amateur Radio. > > > > NONE of this would have been > accomplished as quickly and as economically if it were not for these > early pioneers that spend countless late night hours in their home labs > and stations. > > > > Embarrassing? You make the > decision. I think this opens the door for the decision makers at TIME > Magazine to do a feature article on the high level of technical > expertise the great hobby of amateur radio brings to the world and I > have not even touched upon the amazing amount of volunteer work that > the 'hams' of the world brings to disasters. If it were NOT for ham > radio operators volunteering their time and equipment in the heart of > hurricanes, storms, disasters of all kinds many more lives would have > been lost AND life line communications were established immediately > in these areas....and this continues today. > > > > Does Mr. Grossman call saving and > affecting thousands of lives embarrassing? Obviously he does. I think > it is time for TIME Magazine to rethink his horrible and erroneous > statement and bring the REAL truth along with an apology to it's > readers and the several million amateur radio operators world wide. > > > > I remain at your service to help you > provide the truth about Amateur Radio. > > > > Best Regards, > > BOB HEIL, K9EID > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] ------- End of Original Message -------
